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Introduction to Oracle Database

Performance Tuning

By Ahmed Baraka

Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka


Objectives
In this lecture, you should learn how to perform the following:
• Describe Oracle database performance tuning areas
• Describe performance issue attributes
• Describe Oracle performance tuning methodology
• Describe a typical system workload

Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka


Oracle Database Performance Tuning Areas

Performance
Tuning Tools

Instance
SQL Tuning Tuning

Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka


Oracle Database Performance Tuning Areas

Performance
Tuning Tools

Instance
SQL Tuning Tuning

Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka


Oracle Database Performance Tuning Areas

Performance
Tuning Tools

Instance
SQL Tuning Tuning

Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka


Oracle Database Performance Tuning Areas

Performance
Tuning Tools

Instance
SQL Tuning Tuning

Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka


Oracle Database Performance Tuning Areas

Performance
Tuning Tools

Instance
SQL Tuning Tuning

Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka


Performance Issue Attributes
• Scope: entire system or part of it (specific functionality, session, user,
batch, action, ... etc)
• Very slow or hang
• Permanent or intermittent
• Is it reproducible
• Specific Errors, examples:
- ORA-00257: archiver error. Connect internal only, until freed
- ORA-04031: unable to allocate n bytes of shared memory

Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka


Performance Tuning Methodology

1 Set a measurable target

2 Discover the symptoms

3 Determine possible causes

4 Develop a trial solution

Target NO
5 Test the solution
Hit?
YES
End

Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka


A Typical System Workload Example
Dimension Value
Number of users 100
Transaction rate 1 trx per 5 minutes per user
Business hours 8 hours in 5 working days (5x8)
Calculated rate 20 trx per minute, 9,600 transactions daily.
Peak rate 120 trx per minute

Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka


Summary
In this lecture, you should have learnt how to perform the following:
• Describe Oracle database performance tuning areas
• Describe performance issue attributes
• Describe Oracle performance tuning methodology
• Describe a typical system workload

Oracle© Database Performance Tuning - a course by Ahmed Baraka

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